So, when is it genocide?

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Jan 5, 2013 at 3:15 AM

The United Nations estimates that the death toll in Syria has passed the 60,000 mark as President Bashar Assad continues to wage war on his own people causing a greater threat to the stability of the region. Meanwhile President Obama continues to watch from afar, unlike Libya.

When the United States rallied an assemblage of nations to overthrow Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi the president said it was to prevent genocide. The largest estimate we could find of Libyan deaths as Gaddafi slaughtered his own people was 10,000, a daily death rate far lower than that in Syria.

So how is it that 60,000 dead in Syria fails to constitute genocide in President Obama’s eyes?